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Award-Winning Non-Profit Initiative to Support South African SME & Creativity

Date Posted: 1 July 2015
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10 Tools to Promote Your Crowdfunding Campaign Effectively

A crowdfunding campaign is time-consuming, no matter how well designed it is. Find out about some great resources that will help you streamline and automate your efforts!

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In order for your crowdfunding campaign to be successful, you will have to reach out to as many potential backers as possible. This involves a lot of work across many channels, so your efforts need to be coordinated at all times. One of the most effective ways to achieve your goal is to set up a plan dividing your campaign into stages: Continue reading →

Date Posted: 1 March 2015
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7 Things to Consider BEFORE you Launch your Crowdfunding Project

We get many requests to help with crowdfunding campaigns. We’ve refined a “best practices” list that to share with you! What you’ll read here, and hopefully in the future, is what we’ve found to work. But at the end of the day, two things are really all that’s required: a good idea and A LOT OF HARD WORK. Ok, maybe three – a decent network that supports what you do!

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Date Posted: 29 January 2015
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Using Crowdfunding, Fashion Designers Can Remove Risk Without Changing Style

Being in the fashion crowdfunding industry and creating a crowdfunding campaign allows readers to peruse your offering for free! That being said, if exposure for you happens in the process of teaching readers how to be better crowdfunders — great.

The fashion crowdfunding industry is growing in popularity, largely due to the fact that most of us have a personal style and though we may lack the talent to make the clothes we want to wear, we know our fashion sense perfectly in our minds — if not reflected in our closet!

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Also fashion crowdfunding as a vertical is gaining traction in crowdfunding because of how well suited it is to utilizing the “sourcing” piece of crowdfunding. Continue reading →

Date Posted: 1 November 2014
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European Crowdfunding Association Wants to Better Shape the Industry

With crowdfunding continuing to grow in Europe, a new industry body, the European Equity Crowdfunding Association (EECA), formed in late May to represent specifically equity- and debt-based crowdfunding industries. Recently, EECA held its first board meeting, so we caught up with the organization’s General Counsel and Manager Alessandro Lerro to find out more about the association.

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Crowdsourcing.org: What is the association’s mission?

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Date Posted: 8 October 2014
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Property Crowdfunding: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally

With news stories emerging daily about crowdfunding for real estate, more and more individuals in the US and abroad are taking note of the new way of investing their money in real estate.

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Thus far, with the industry in its earliest stages, the majority of deals are taking place locally, and involve relatively modest sums of money. There have been a few large deals — for instance, the $171.8 million investment in the BD Bacatá building in Colombia — that shows the impressive sums that crowdfunding can raise. The deal, however, was only open to Colombian citizens.

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